Steve-O brings filthy comedy, crazy stunts to Eastern Iowa

Clowning around is serious business for Steve-O, a 1997 graduate of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Clown College.

That training provided the springboard the trick-skateboarder needed to jump from cruise ship clown to Hollywood stunt maniac.

He's built a career around outrageous feats of derring-do in the “Jackass” television, film franchises and live shows, including one with his cohorts in Cedar Rapids in December 2002 at the Crowne Plaza Five Seasons Hotel ballroom.

For the past 13 months, however, he's been turning his fascination with stand-up comedy into “The Entirely Too Much Information Tour.”

That's an entirely appropriate title, judging from YouTube tour clips. None of the material can be printed in this publication, so you get the idea of what fans ages 21 and over will see and hear tonight at Penguins Comedy Club in Cedar Rapids and Friday night at the Mississippi Moon Bar in Dubuque's Diamond Jo Casino.

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